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A new Anglican course on Christianity has proved a hit with new and non-believers

“Once, to be Anglican meant to be English — the two words were interchangeable,” says the Bishop of Exeter, the Right Rev Robert Atwell. “That is no longer the case.”

His words seem prescient in view of the debate over “British values”, what they are and, in particular, who identifies with them. David Cameron, for instance, writing in the wake of the recent “Trojan horse” plot involving an alleged Islamic takeover of Birmingham primary schools, listed British values as “a belief in freedom, tolerance of others, accepting personal and social responsibility, respecting and upholding the rule of law”. Such values, though